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Why, When, and By Whom 

Was the Original "Mystic Shakespeare Stone" of 1616 l^{ 

removed from the chancel of the church, and ^^ 

Where is It nnw m 



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COPYRIGHT, 1916. BY C. ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY. P. O. BOX 668. NEW YORK. U. S. A. 



The Original "Mystic Shakespeare Stone' 

(Referred to by Francis, Lord Verulam, in 1625!) 

Which was placed in the chancel of the church at Stratford-on-Avon, 1616. 



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for lelus SAKE forLeare 
Duft EncloAfed HElRel 
Blefe LeTE Man y fpares "HEs Stones 
An^CTirlt^LeHe X nioves niy Bones 



Copies of the Original Inscription (none of them quite perfect!) can be seen in Ireland's "Pictur- 
esque Views on the Avon" (London: 1795); Valpy's Edition of Shakespeare's Works (London: 1832. 
Vol. I., page xiii); Charles Knight's Pictorial Edition (London: 1843. Biography, page 535); and 
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands" (Boston: 1854. VoL I., page 209 — q. v.) 



Present False "Shakespeare Epitaph" 

(Rewritten: why, when and by whom?) 

Which now replaces the Original "Mystic Shakespeare Stone" of 1616. 



Good freno for Iesvs sake forbeare, 
to oigg "he ovst encloased heare: 

D E T 

OLESX BE Y MAN Y SPARES BES STONES, 

T 
AND CVRST BE HE Y MOVES MY BONES. 



Note the entirely different typography (now all "Gothic" capital letters) ; the suppression of the 
peculiar and unique characteristics of the Original, with its three sizes of types; the added punctuation; 
the changes of the spelling in the new words "BLESTE" and "HEARE" (listen!); and the inexcusable 
substitution of the letters "yE" for the mystical monogram "THE" in the third line of the Original. 



The "Mystic" Inscription on the Original "Shakespeare Stone" of 1616 is 
an Anagram, telling of the Royal Tudor (but unacknowledged, parentage of 
"SHAKE-SPEARE" (not his "dummy," Shaxspere, of Stratford-on-Avon!). 
It states the Authorship of the Plays and Poems bearing the name of "Shake- 
speare,'* and reveals the Secret of the Tomb in the chancel of the Stratford church. 

After three centuries it has at last been perfectly deciphered (together with 
the English and the false-Latin Inscriptions on the Monument with the modern- 
ized bust and the challenge: "Read if thou canst"!). 

The "Epitaph" in "Timon of Athens," and the "Prophecy" in 
"Cymbeline" (in the First Folio, 1623), both of which have also been de- 
ciphered, confirm and emphasize in a startling way the mystic inscription on 
the Original "Shakespeare Stone." 

Before this Discovery is published try to decipher it, yourself. It is a simple 
but most ingenious Anagram, and settles forever what Helen Keller has truly 
called: "The greatest problem in Literature!" 



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